It is getting harder and harder to watch the unfolding horror that is happening to the human beings in Gaza, over 60,000 killed many of them innocent civilians and so many of them children. When will this slaughter stop?! As Mahatma Ghandi very wisely said, “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. Never before have these words been so true.
This conflict did not start on October 7th 2023, neither did it start in1948 but way back in time. But taking the latest conflagration when militant Palestinians attacked in Israel on that fateful day. the young men who carried out that atrocity were using the eye for an eye point of view after witnessing many deaths and mutilations that had been perpetrated on their people by the IDF over decades, in 2005 alone over 3,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, the year that some of the perpetrators were born. Having grown up with such horror they sought revenge, an eye for eye. Then the beast was released with full military superiority and cause to inflict maximum punishment on the whole population of Gaza. The beast is Zionism, a political movement which wants to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.
When Benjamin Netanyahu, who was under severe pressure from an internal investigation into fraud and bribery, formed his coalition with extreme Zionist parties the die was cast that the IDF would become the Israeli Attack Force. They had the weaponry, now they had the political power and now they needed an opportunity to unleash the onslaught. Where were the IDF, with their super intelligence capabilities, on that fateful day on October 7th and why were they so slow in responding to the attack? It’s a legitimate question. This day and and all the killing that took place and the capture of hostages proved to be that opportunity needed to unleash the genocide of all Palestinians in Gaza.
As it stands now and with no end in sight 17,000 children are among the 60,000 killed mainly in airstrikes by targeted bombing, only last week 9 children of a doctor working in the remnants of a hospital saw their charred bodies coming into her place of work. These kids are human beings, real life human beings. The adults are human beings, real life human beings, capable of and deserving of dignity and love.
When is the international community going to act to stop the slaughter of innocents? Meanwhile in the West bank Zionists are becoming more and more emboldened by this lack of action, committing many more incursions on the Palestinians living there, who are recognised by international law to have that right to live there. Action is needed and needed now.
Being anti Zionist is not being Antisemitic, as people who stand up and condemn the actions of the present Israeli government are labelled by said government. There are many Jews that are appalled by the killings, did not Moses, one of the great prophets of the Jewish faith, bring down the Ark of the Covenant which stated as one of the commandments from God “Thou shalt not kill”. This Zionist regime is far from that law and are the real anti Semites.
Enough enough enough. When will we ever learn that an eye for an eye is not the human being way to peace?.